writer/artist/educator
https://www.lillianyvonnebertram.com/
THE BODY DEFORMED BY TIDAL FORCES
Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees.
Spring so uneasy this year.
No matter morning’s boundary culling our bodies,
another romantic passage assaults us!
O limp future centered on this body!
In the model solar system, planets suspend & twirl
as if from a spider’s whirl.
The quantum in backpedal, in decline, spring so ungripping
this year. Bored mouth. Bored fingers.
The umpteenth day/night running like such—
truly, truly—this troubling with physics!
Not still winter, not yet anything.
O thuggish awakening.
All planets but this one were named after gods.
Artist Statement
“My writing is wide-ranging and concerns the malleability of language and forms.
I am interested in the intersections of the innovative and experimental with aspects race, gender, and the more-than-human world. My work is ground in inquiry, ways of knowing, and how language can (and cannot) communicate experiences felt in body and mind. Even at its most cerebral my work is centered in notions of embodiment and the lived experience of seeing and being seen.
My practice and process includes photographic and video work and mixed media composition. Current projects include computational poetics and emerging technologies, spell-casting, and collaborative writing.”
University of Utah MFA, PHD// University of Illinois, MFA//Carnegie Mellon University, BA
Professional
- Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UMass Boston
- MFA Creative Writing Program, Boston Ma.
- Director of the Chautauqua Institution Writers’ Festival, New York
Past Affiliations
- St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
- Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.
- Williams College, Williamstown, Ma.
Bibliography
- “’unstruck matches everywhere’: A Critical Review of Patricia Smith’s Incendiary Art”. The Fight and the Fiddle. Winter 2018. Vol. 1, Iss. 3
- Exhibition booklet for “The Acephalous Series”, paintings by Laylah Ali (December 2017)
- “’To find kisses pressed in books: One Hundred Years of Gwendolyn Brooks.’” Harriet. Poetry Foundation, April 2017.
- Grand Dessein (Container Press, 2017)
- personal science (Tupelo Press, 2017)
- a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press, 2016)
- But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012)
- cutthroat glamours (Phantom Limb Press, 2013)
- Tierra Fisurada, (Editoriales del Duende, 2001)
Awards
- 2017 Harvard University Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant
- 2016 Narrative Magazine Poetry Award
- 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
- 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award